Speaks pointed me towards the Fox News website for this, but their site is a tangles nightmare of bad code, poor browser support and I’m not sure how much longer the video will remain there, but Google Video is another matter… Faux/Fox News showing it’s typical style as they try to shame Salt Lake City’s [...]
Archive for August, 2006
Posted in Environment on Aug 31st, 2006
(Macon Telegraph) Mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus have been discovered in a central-Albany neighborhood, prompting officials to step up insect control measures and launch a public awareness campaign. Sheena Haynes, spokeswoman for the state’s Southwest Health District, said today the pool of disease-carrying mosquitoes is not thought to have been the source of infection [...]
Posted in News on Aug 31st, 2006
(World Net Daily) An evangelist who tried replicating Jesus’ miracle of walking on water has reportedly drowned off the western coast of Africa. Pastor Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle, and he attempted it from a beach in Gabon’s capital of Libreville. “He told churchgoers he’d had a revelation [...]
Posted in Journal on Aug 30th, 2006
I’m looking for a book called Some Problems in Greek History by Arnold J. Toynsbee. There is supposedly an essay within it that I recall seeing quoted at least twice now that I’d like to read in full and in context if I can. The essay in question is called “If Alexander the Great Had [...]
Posted in Bush on Aug 29th, 2006
(Washington Post) The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal. The move by the administration is the latest effort to deal with treatment of those taken into [...]
Posted in Journal on Aug 29th, 2006
I love running water whether it’s in the form of a single stride-wide stream or the arterty of a continent. Forgetting for a moment the pleasure for the eyes and ears a waterway presents, I’ve always been intrigued by the journey of water. When I’m hiking or driving and pass by a river or stream, [...]
Posted in Journal on Aug 26th, 2006
I’ve heard it said that civilization is only a few months from collapse once the structures of distribution and management are removed. To that theory, I’d like to add that a lawn is only four weeks from a convincing set for Apocalypse Now. Lawn Math… Four weeks of intermittent rain & sun over .25 acres [...]
Posted in News on Aug 25th, 2006
(Now Playing) The first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica weren’t exactly lighthearted affairs, but according to executive producer Ron Moore and star Edward James Olmos, the upcoming third year will be its darkest yet. In separate interviews, the two recently spoke to Now Playing about where the show is going and what’s in store for [...]
Posted in Bush on Aug 25th, 2006
(Village Voice) In June, the Supreme Court ( Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) placed commander in chief Bush and the top of his policy-making chain of command in jeopardy for the treatment of their suspected-terrorist prisoners in Guantánamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan and elsewhere. So much has happened since June—the Middle East war, the civil war in [...]
Posted in Science on Aug 24th, 2006
(Associated Press) Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery [...]
